These two volumes on fieldwork carried out at Cranborne Chase were published to provide two
very different bodies of information. The 1990 volume is a synthetic approach tracing the
development of Cranborne Chase from the beginning of the Neolithic to the end of the Iron Age.
It provides a selective account of the excavation and survey work with some analyses of the
artefacts and ecofacts but is more concerned with producing a study of social change.

For an extended account of all the categories of excavated material the reader is referred to
the 1991 volume of essays which is intended to complete the definitive record of the project
leaving nothing in micofiche.

The stated purpose of this massive body of information (the work of over 80 contributors), is to
attempt to use the finds from the excavation of medieval Winchester to investigate the economic,
cultural and social life of the city as it changed over time.

Volume i comprises general introductions to the recording, conservation, etc and the distribution
of the finds. Following this is a section on medieval industries and their roots, eg iron working
including archaeological evidence, associated objects and scientific examination.

Volume ii presents objects according to their use eg buckles and clothes fittings, weapons and
armour and devotional objects.

This is principally an account of excavations carried out at Vindolanda in 1980, comprising
structural reports and artefacts reports. The available evidence for the history of the fort and
the vicus is also reviewed with the aim of providing a stimulus to future research at the site.

Monograph 5

Danebury: An Iron Age Hillfort in Hampshire
Barry Cunliffe
Council for British Archaeology Research Report 52
London
1984

These volumes present an interim report on the research excavations carried out at Danebury
between 1969 and 1978. The reports were finalised at a time when some of the authors were
involved in the CBA/DoE Working Party on Archaeological Publication. Some elements of the
recommendations of that working party were incorporated in the volumes.

Volume 1 runs into Volume 2, with continuous pagination. Volume 2 includes 15 pages
summarising the data, and discussing the social, economic and political development of the
site and suggesting future research.

This report presents the results of excavations carried out in the interior of the Roman fort of
Strageath in Perthshire. The results are presented in a conventional manner with site description
and an account of the excavations followed by a summary of the forts at Strageath and ending
with the finds reports and three environmental reports.

The report of the excavations carried out at the chambered tomb at Isbister are presented in 1980s
BAR format. The remains of over 300 individuals were recovered and the report is of interest to
human bone specialists as well as those with an interest in the Neolithic of Britain.

Full specialist reports on the artefacts, human remains, faunal remains and pollen are included.
Four out of the thirteen chapters are discussion/syntheses.

The results of excavations at seven medieval sites in the centre of Perth, funded by the
Scottish Development Department. More than half of the report is devoted to artefact reports
and there are two pages of conclusions.

Whitton was an important excavation in management terms - it was one of the first sites where
the Inspectorate of Ancient Monuments recognised that continuous ploughing might necessitate
rescue excavation. The excavations were also the first total excavation by modern methods of
a romanised farm in South Wales.

The report contains detailed information on the contexts, finds and environmental samples. There
are four pages of conclusions and little discussion of comparative material.

Carrickfergus Castle is Northern Ireland's best known castle. This relatively short publication
presents the results of excavations carried out there in 1955 and 1962. The summary of the
excavation takes up only a quarter of the volume with much of the remainder being devoted
to documentary and survey evidence relating to the development of the castle. Because of this
structure it is of more interest to the general reader.

This report presents the results of excavations carried out on behalf of English Heritage in order
to gather information which would help with the management and presentation of the site which
is a firmly established element of the Dorset tourist trail.

Within the report most emphasis is given to the structural sequence and the survey work. There
are sixteen pages of discussion/synthesis. The fiche is not supplied with the report but available
free from Wessex Archaeology.

Monograph 13

An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Norton, Cleveland
SJ Sherlock and MG Welch
Council for British Archaeology Research Report 82
London
1992
225 pages plus fiche

This volume presents the results of the survey and excavation, by Cleveland County Council,
of an almost complete Anglo-Saxon cemetery within the presumed boundaries of Bernicia,
the northernmost of the Northumbrian kingdoms. One hundred and twenty burials were
recorded. The volume includes extensive illustrations of artefacts but only four pages of
comparative material/synthesis.

Monograph 14

The Viking Age buildings of Dublin
Patrick F Wallace
Published by the Royal Irish Academy
National Museum of Ireland and the Royal Irish Academy
Dublin
1992

Part 1 - Text - 207 pages
Part 2 - Illustrations - 215 pages

These volumes concentrate on the building remains from the Wood Quay group of sites
excavated between 1974 and 1981. The excavations are summarised and building techniques,
carpentry, etc are discussed in detail. There is a section on origins, contexts and comparisons
setting the buildings into a broader European framework. A catalogue of the buildings is included
but no artefact or environmental reports.